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ObamaCare in Court

A Florida judge allows the major state lawsuit to proceed to trial.

Updated Oct. 15, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Even the legal left now grudgingly concedes that the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare aren't frivolous, and an important decision in Florida yesterday shows why. Federal District Judge Roger Vinson refused to throw out the core challenge to the law made by 20 state Attorneys General and other plaintiffs, overruling the arguments by the Obama Justice Department.

The lawsuit's bedrock claim is that ObamaCare's individual mandate that people buy health insurance or else pay a penalty exceeds Congress's authority under...